Examples of “dynamite” in a Sentence

noun A powerful explosive made from nitroglycerin absorbed into a stabilizing material, used for blasting and demolition.

• Workers used dynamite to break up the huge rocks before building the road.
• The old movie showed a cowboy lighting a stick of dynamite.
• Miners used dynamite to clear the rockfall blocking the tunnel.

noun Something remarkably exciting, impressive, or dangerous.

• That young singer is dynamite on stage; the whole crowd was dancing.
• Their new recipe is dynamite, and everyone asked for a second helping.
• Her debut album turned out to be pure dynamite.

verb To blow something up using dynamite or a similar explosive.

• Engineers dynamited the cliff to open a path for the new railway.
• They plan to dynamite the old chimney next week to clear the site.
• The crew dynamited the old bridge to make way for a new one.